Triple-Decker Weekly
...and weapons, nearly anything can be purchased online with a few clicks of the mouse. The online black market not only can be accessed by anyone with an Internet connection,...
Sunday Reading
...are not the next housing bubble Exposé of the ACCJC, the accrediting agency that's threatening to shut down CCSF Online class on how to teach online classes goes laughably awry...
Vol. 19 Editors' Note: "Art"
...art is primarily viewed onscreen and online, new strategies are both possible and necessary. The alleged democratization effect afforded by networked technologies is often posited as the most significant recent...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...ended in December. After I stopped it, I started writing in different modes, much less online, then writing more what felt like what essays are sometimes supposed to feel like,...
Data Transgression
...enthusiastic, worshipful comments like “This is why I love the Internet!” The recent defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) produced many examples of this phenomenon: Lawrence Lessig summarized...
On Heteropessimism
Heterosexuality is nobody’s personal problem.
Security Culture Is Good
...If your friend sends you a link that looks weird, call or text them to make sure they actually sent it. The most common way people get owned online is...
Follow The Leader
...six languages. And there is a Catholic presence online outside of Vatican-sponsored activities. You can visit a Catholic Church on Second Life–the most popular 3D virtual community which boasts over...
Mapping the Sneakernet
...the offline population as those who haven’t gone online in the past 12 months. Following the implicit logic of such statistics, it can be easy to assume that being unconnected...
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...online student and provide extra tutoring. Or computer-based games with built-in cameras could register how people are reacting to each move in the game and ramp up the pace if...
"Art"
...Abrams in “Flatland;” it was arguably ever thus, but in a post-Internet economy in which art is primarily viewed onscreen and online, new strategies are both possible and necessary. The...
Softer Than Softcore
...meridian response (ASMR) has become the focal point of a robust community of online enthusiasts. In its protoplasmic early life on blogs and message boards, it was simply dubbed “the...
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Robert Heinecken, Lessons in Posing Subjects/Matching Facial Expressions, 1981 (Robert Heinecken retrospective at MoMA, through September 7, 2014) Fox News host Bill Hemmer explains missing plane: ‘It...
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...of political transparency. The changes mean Congressional and White House staff members will not have to post details of their shareholdings online. They will also make online filing optional for...
Meritocracy and measurement myths
...to "express ourselves" but we end up being willing to express whatever is necessary to get measurable increases in online impact. The possibility and plausiblity of a real self becomes...
Model Behavior
...just how this goes: You dress for the office, you mold your online and offline persona to reflect well on the company, and even out of office hours, your “performance”...